Lately, I have been writing various scripts to automate Azure tasks for our Zerto Training team. One of the unique things about deploying training labs at scale is that we use MANY Azure subscriptions in order to properly isolate and scale labs. So when a change needs to be made, we need to make the…

Zerto 7 was officially released April 16th, 2019 and most of the headlines were around the new integrated backup technologies. However, there is another story that hasn’t made as many headlines, but is equally awesome! Zerto has been able to replicate and recover VMs into Azure for several years now, and to do that we…

You’ve probably heard that ZertoCon 2019 is going to be in Nashville Tennessee, Monday May 20 – Wednesday May 22. If you havent already registered you can do that here. In years past we have always done a session related to APIs/PowerShell and scripting. The chairs are PACKED, to say the least. This year we’re…

You probably spent the last month or two reading 2019 prediction posts. Or posts about how those posts were absolutely wrong… LOL So, instead of telling you what technologies and products will make waves in 2019, I thought it would be more beneficial (and fun) to talk about what you can do in 2019 to…

In the technology sector it’s safe to say that no one has done the same job for the duration of their entire career. Things just change too fast for that to ever happen. In my experience what separates those who love their career and those who get burned out is how well that person learns…

The network configuration abstraction renderer Netplan is a utility for easily configuring networking on a linux system. You simply create a YAML description of the required network interfaces and what each should be configured to do. From this description Netplan will generate all the necessary configuration for your chosen renderer tool. Currently supported backends are…

New production-ready and fully-supported release enables developers of all skill levels to harness the power of Kubernetes to simplify modern app development KUBECON, Seattle, Wash. – December 11, 2018 – DigitalOcean, the cloud for developing modern apps, today announced that its managed Kubernetes service is now available with production-ready functionality and full customer support. Since…

This week I’m at KubeCon in Seattle, and I think Traefik is a pretty awesome tool if you are using containers. If you would like to view the press release at its original location, you can find it here: https://medium.com/@emilevauge/83b78d09efeb Containous, the company behind Traefik, is announcing Traefik Enterprise Edition — TraefikEE, a new platform built on top of Traefik and…

It has been a few years since my first look at CloudBerry Backup. Back then it was called CloudBerry Online Backup, it’s now called Windows Desktop Cloud Backup. (Server backup is similar but a separate product.) To bring you up to speed, I’ve been using CloudBerry Backup Desktop Edition to protect my desktop for over…

Azure DevOps is a suite of offerings from Microsoft that aims to help companies deliver better software faster. They have a great article on “what is DevOps” here. But why am I using DevOps? You may be asking yourself, why is this infrastructure guy using development tools? The short version is because my new role…

Have you ever upgraded firmware, or installed a driver, only later to find out that it’s not compatible with vSphere or ESXi? Maybe I’m just the only one who doesn’t check the HCL or release notes before doing stuff like…

Lately, I have been writing various scripts to automate Azure tasks for our Zerto Training team. One of the unique things about deploying training labs at scale is that we use MANY Azure subscriptions in order to properly isolate and…

Zerto 7 was officially released April 16th, 2019 and most of the headlines were around the new integrated backup technologies. However, there is another story that hasn’t made as many headlines, but is equally awesome! Zerto has been able to…

We are just over one month away from ZertoCon 2019. Which means we are also just over one month from the hackathon, so it’s time for an update! I just started some threads on the Hackathon forum (on myZerto). The…

I can’t remember if I bought my C3000 chassis in 2016 or 2015, but it’s still running great (knock on wood) and has been the best “home lab” investment I’ve made. Define Home Lab Saying that this is my home…

You’ve probably heard that ZertoCon 2019 is going to be in Nashville Tennessee, Monday May 20 – Wednesday May 22. If you havent already registered you can do that here. In years past we have always done a session related…

You probably spent the last month or two reading 2019 prediction posts. Or posts about how those posts were absolutely wrong… LOL So, instead of telling you what technologies and products will make waves in 2019, I thought it would…

In the technology sector it’s safe to say that no one has done the same job for the duration of their entire career. Things just change too fast for that to ever happen. In my experience what separates those who…